One of the great privileges of hosting this podcast is the way that so many extraordinary business book authors are willing to share the vulnerable stuff – especially the fear and uncertainty around writing – with me, I hope you find it helpful too. In this week’s episode, I look…

‘I decided not to do research, then write, then polish, but to have a big jigsaw approach, and do each day what I felt like doing. So if I felt like doing a bit of research, I would, if I felt actually I’ve got some stuff in my mind. I…

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If you’re overthinking things and tying yourself in knots, make a cup of tea and have a listen to this. Lucinda Carney is a woman who Gets Stuff Done, and in this conversation she reveals how she does it. It’s a great example of how creating content – in this…

Just occasionally, you have a conversation that rocks you to your core. One of those conversations that shows you how little you really know of life, how blind you are to your own privilege, and how feeble your excuses are. This is one of those conversations. Chris Wilson was facing…

‘In leadership communication, and indeed in the process of writing a business book, the more and better the quality and time spent on the thinking, the less time and the more effective the actual production of the communication or the book.’ Dr Elsbeth Johnson certainly put the time into creating…

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‘The more I shared my personal experience… the more vulnerability I showed, the more impact it had when I got feedback from readers.’ It’s amazing how often the process of writing a book reflects the principles within it. That was certainly the case for Anne Taylor, who set out to…

‘Anyone who says writing a book is something you can do in 12 weeks or something is just telling people to write a bad book. ‘ It took Bryony Thomas four years to write the first edition of Watertight Marketing (although she did also give birth in that time…), but…

David Mansfield has a library of business books at home. Many of them are very good, many include great concepts and strategies. But he kept finding himself asking: ‘How do you apply that to Monday morning?’ And thus was born The Monday Revolution – a rallying call to rethink your…

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‘It was actually like falling in love, if I’m honest.’ If you’ve fallen out of love with writing your book and even with your own ideas, this is just the tonic you need. Julia Hobsbawm lucidly talks through the evolution of The Simplicity Principle, with a behind-the-scenes look at the…